Into the Hands of the Living God (JSOT Supplement)
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr
Published: June 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781850752127
Subjects: Religion: general; Religion
Description: Into the Hands of the Living God is Lyle Eslinger's second study of Deuteronomistic literature. This book is devoted to studies of key texts (Joshua 1-9; Judges 1-2; 1 Samuel 12; 1 Kings 8; 2 Kings 17) or concepts (the success/failure of the conquest; the exile and theodicy) in these narratives. Eslinger's readings are unorthodox and challenging, both for readers from the communities of faith and for critical scholarship. The Deuteronomistic narratives are here shown to be far from being a vindication of the ways of God at Israel's expense. Rather, in these narratives God, no less than Israel.'